Brilliant Quote by Peter Bayne

Man is only truly great when he acts from the passions; never irresistible but when he appeals to the imagination.

— Benjamin Disraeli

A great man need not be virtuous, nor his opinions right, but he must have a firm mind, a distinctive luminous character.

— George Santayana

Man (in good earnest) is a marvellous vain, fickle, and unstable subject, and on whom it is very hard to form any certain and…

— Michel de Montaigne

Speaking generally, no man appears great to his contemporaries, for the same reason that no man is great to his servants--both know too much…

— Charles Caleb Colton

Rare almost as great poets, rarer, perhaps, than veritable saints and martyrs; are consummate men of business. A man, to be excellent in this…

— Arthur Helps

Man is not interesting without some imperfection

— Soichiro Honda

Truly man is a marvelously vain, diverse, and undulating object. It is hard to found any constant and uniform judgment on him.

— Michel de Montaigne

Man, having an ideal before him of that which he ought to be, and is not, and acting as though he possessed the character…

— William Batchelder Greene

The inquiry in England is not whether a man has talents and genius, but whether he is passive and polite and a virtuous ass…

— William Blake

No man was ever great by imitation.

— Samuel Johnson

“In everything that can be called art there is a quality of redemption. It may be pure tragedy, if it is high tragedy, and…

— Raymond Chandler

He that can enjoy the intimacy of the great, and on no occasion disgust them by familiarity, or disgrace himself by servility, proves that…

— Charles Caleb Colton